Growing Up, Growing Old: Trajectories of Times and Lives
Book by Andrea Nicolas and Ian Flaherty (eds.)
Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press 2013
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Introduction
Article by Andrea Nicolas and Ian Flaherty
in: Growing Up, Growing Old: Trajectories of Times and Lives, ed. by Andrea Nicolas and Ian Flaherty. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press 2013, pp. vii-xv.
pdf-download: https://www.interdisciplinarypress.net/images/stories/IDP/hard_copy/GUGO_Introduction.pdf
Abstract:
Life-course paradigms belong to the most salient features in social life. Virtually everyone is affected by one or the other version of their formulations. Accordingly important it seems to detect their underlying bases and assumptions and to show the deep impact these visions have on our lives. The present volume collects a number of articles coming from very varied backgrounds, such as sociology, psychology, anthropology and gerontology. The papers were originally presented at the international, inter-disciplinary conference “Times of our lives: Growing up and Growing old,” at the University of Oxford, in Summer 2009. They all share a common interest in the topic of ageing and in the different ways that life-courses may be shaped in different historical and cultural contexts. The authors in this volume engage in a fruitful mutual exchange, and they do so from different angles and perspectives. The interdisciplinary approach in this book provides a most promising arena for the discussion of ageing.
Table of Contents:
Introduction (Andrea Nicolas and Ian Flaherty), pp. vii-xv
Part 1: Trajectories in Time: Chronology, Age and Visions of the
Life-Course
‘Teen Brain’ Stories and Their Place in Contemporary Discourses of
(Im)Maturity across the Lifespan (Monica A. Payne), pp. 3-26
Without a Centre that Holds: Contemporary Adulthood and the Devolving
Life-Course (Harry Blatterer), pp. 27-45
The Social Construction of Generations in Contemporary China: A
Mannheimian Critique (Chen Hee Tam), pp. 47-60
Part 2: The Flow of Life: Thresholds, Stages and Transitions
Blurred Transitions: Revisiting the Importance of Work and Parenthood
for Young Adults in Italy (Valentina Cuzzocrea and Sveva Magaraggia),
pp.63-85
Like Fathers, Like Sons: Age-Staging and Generational Stumbling Blocks,
The Boran Gadaa Experience (Andrea Nicolas), pp. 87-110
Growing Up and Growing Old: Negotiating the Generational Shift in
Midlife (Bethany Morgan Brett), pp. 111-130
Part 3: Storied Lives: Love, Intimacy and Narratives of Happiness
The Love Stories of, and the Impact of HIV/AIDS upon, Generations of
Gay Men in Urban Australia and New Zealand (Ian Flaherty), pp. 133-149
Storied Lives: Connecting Life Course Narrative Identities and
Eudaimonic Happiness in Later Life (Deirdre O’Donnell and Kathleen
McTiernan), pp. 151-174
Part 4: Shifts and Continuities: Reflecting upon Time and Generation
Get Me to a Nunnery: A Reflection on Ageing in Two Different Cultural
Contexts, the Nursing Home and the Religious Convent (Ina Olohan),
pp. 177-193
Situating Ageing, Consumption and Materiality through the Life-Course
(Juliana Mansvelt), pp. 195-215
Intimacy among the Socially Dead: Examining Intimacy among
Institutionalised Elders with Mid to Late Stage Dementia (Johanna M. Wigg),
pp. 217-229